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(ModeL) J. O. RAND.

TOOL FOR REMOVING WATCH HANDS.

18888 407. Patented Apr/3', 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT JEFFERSON CRAWFORD RAND, OF MAYNARD, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GEORGE Vi". HANES, OF SAME PLACE.

TOOL FOR REMOVING WATCH-HANDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,407, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed June 18, 1887. Serial No. 241.741. (Modem T0 aZZ wit-0122. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON CRAWFORD RAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Maynard, in the county of Fayette and State of Iowa, have invented anew and useful Iniprovement in Tools for Removing VVatch- Hands, of which the followingisaspecification.

My invention consists of a tool for removing or lifting all the hands of a watch from their pinions; and the objects of my improvement are to avoid danger of breaking the pinions or scratching or otherwise injuring the dial, and also to avoid danger of losing the hands. I attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view ofthe tool; and Fig. a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, showing the tool in use.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both views.

The tool consists of the piece B, having an ear, D, forholding when in use. Attached to the lower end of the piece B and at right angles thereto are two thin blades, Eand F, both of which are notched. The blade F is intended for the removal ofseconds-hands,and hasalight steel spring, I, which rests against its upper surface and serves to hold the hand in the tool after its removal from the pinion. The blade E is used in removing the hour and minute hands. Ascrew-threadedrod,O,passesthrough a nut in the upper part of the piece B. The

handle A serves to rotate the rod 0. The lower part of the rod 0, at H, is made as small as the center pinion of a watch.

The method of using the tool in removing the hour and minute hands of a watch is to hold the tool between the thumb and finger of one hand by the ear D, and then slip the blade E under the hands with the pinion fitting into the slot. Upon revolving the handle A with the lower end of the point H of the rod C resting on top of the pinion the piece B will be slowly and steadily lifted up with a direct pull, thus removing the bands, which will be held in the tool by the point H passing through the holes in the end of the hands.

To remove seconds-hands the blade F is passed under the seconds-hand with the spring I on top ofthe hand, when a direct pull on the tool will remove the hand from the pinion or staff, the spring I holding the hand securely after its removal.

Having thus described my invention, whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a tool for removing watch -hands, the combination, with the piece 13, of blades E and F, spring I, car D, handle A, screwthreaded rod 0, and point H, substantially as specified.

JEFFERSON CRAWFORD RAND.

Witnesses:

R. R. PEMBER, E. B. SNEDIGAE. 

